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Venezuelan government defends detaining Marine veteran for 2 years
Marine veteran Matthew Heath was arrested in 2020 and accused of being a terrorist and spying for then-President Donald Trump.
Here’s the career info for the former Green Berets involved in Venezuela raid debacle
Former Green Beret turned private security consultant Jordan Goudreau has said he helped orchestrate the botched raid and identified his two colleagues.
By Kyle Rempfer
US ‘had nothing to do’ with ex-Green Beret’s failed raid in Venezuela, says Esper
“The United States government had nothing to do with what’s happened in Venezuela in the last few days,” Esper said.
By Kyle Rempfer
Venezuela: 2 Americans among those nabbed after beach raid
Venezuelan security forces arrested eight people, including two alleged U.S. citizens, following a beach invasion aimed at capturing socialist President Nicolás Maduro, according to information released Monday by authorities, as more than 25,000 troops mobilized to hunt for other rebels operating in the country.
Naval buildup in Caribbean not aimed at ousting Maduro, says head of US Southern Command
The top U.S. military commander for Latin America said Friday that the Trump administration isn’t looking to use military force to remove Nicolas Maduro even as it expands counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean.
Trump: US to deploy anti-drug Navy ships near Venezuela
The administration is beefing up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro.
Paratroopers jump into Colombia for airfield seizure exercise
U.S. paratroopers are subject matter experts on airborne operations and will serve as the air mission command and assault force, an 82nd spokesman said.
By Kyle Rempfer
Op-ed: Stop the rise of autonomous weapons
Our ever-growing appetite for intelligent, autonomous machines poses a host of ethical challenges.
By Christoffer Heckman, University of Colorado Boulder
Fearing American abandonment, Kurds kept back channels to Damascus, Moscow wide open
When Syria’s Kurdish fighters, America’s longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus and Moscow, it seemed like a moment of geopolitical whiplash.
US special operations secrets could fall into hands of Russians and Syrians in pullout
A former U.S. military intelligence operator who spent years working with special operations forces told Military Times that the potential spillover of sensitive tradecraft or information by the SDF was “super problematic," but also a symptom of the lack of a genuine strategy in the region.
By Shawn Snow